A tropical butterfly from the Heliconius tribe has evolved to live a maximum lifespan of 348 days, nearly 25 times longer ...

Accordingly, all the longest-lived butterflies in the study were of the pollen-partaking persuasion, with an average maximum ...

A tropical butterfly has evolved an ingenious anti-aging strategy by delaying the aging process, enabling it to live far ...

For most butterfly species, an adult’s life is brief and—with all due respect to butterflies—unextraordinary. After emerging ...

person looking at butterfly in garden with flowers - Katrin_timoff/Getty Images There's nothing quite like the wildlife that flocks to your garden during the warmer months of the year. Those melodic ...

If evolution was originally depicted as a tree, with different species branching off as new blooms, then new research shows how the branches may actually be more entangled. In "Hybrid speciation ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature placed the monarch butterfly on its Red List of Threatened Species as endangered in July, but despite decades of declining numbers, the delicate ...

The monarch butterfly, an unmistakable sign of spring, is now considered an endangered species at risk of extinction. The International Union for Conservation added the monarch butterfly to its Red ...

A record number of Duke of Burgundy butterflies were recorded in Kent last year, a charity says.

A comprehensive 90-year study in Switzerland reveals alarming declines in butterfly populations while forest beetles have ...

Sir David Attenborough, president of Butterfly Conservation, shares how planting certain things in your garden can help bring ...